Publishing & Politics: How Science Gets Made

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What's a scientific paper? What's peer review? And when governments say they're "following the science" during this pandemic, what does that actually mean? We're figuring out how science goes from results in a lab to become public information, or even national policy. Plus, in the news: we rate the security of the UK's new COVID-19 tracing app; doctors that didn't know they'd been infected with coronavirus; and should we really be bailing out airlines? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.3	Hello.
0:04.3	Hello.
0:05.3	Welcome.
0:06.3	Science and that is the same physics medicine, nature or big big time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientists, the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs
0:21.0	in science, technology and medicine with Chris Smith and me
0:24.3	Phil Sansom.
0:26.0	This week we're going back to the basics of how science itself works.
0:30.6	What's the scientific paper?
0:31.6	What's peer review? And when Boris Johnson says he's following the science
0:35.7	what does that actually mean? Plus in the news is the UK's new COVID-19
0:41.1	tracing app secure the doctors that didn't know they'd been infected with
0:45.1	coronavirus and should we really be bailing out the airlines.
0:49.0	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK.
0:55.0	UK.
0:57.0	First up here in the UK, we've had mixed messages from the government about
1:05.7	the easing of lockdown and we've also seen a seeming increase in the spread of the
1:09.7	coronavirus. Chris as a virologist who's been following all of this closely what's been going on
1:15.9	The big news is that we've had the announcement of an approved test this is an antibody test unlike the current genetic test that we've been doing to tell
1:25.1	whether people have the virus right now. This is going to be a breakthrough because what it will
1:28.3	enable us to do is to work out how many people have already been exposed to the virus, how many people are therefore immune, and how many
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